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The Temporary Decline and Non-Fall of the American Non-Empire
Posted by Unknown | 2:23 PM
Niall Ferguson is at it again , predicting the "downfall of the American empire": Niall Ferguson is candidly calling time on the A...
The brown people win (and you win, too)
Posted by Unknown | 7:31 AM
I remember, a few years back, driving through LA and listening to Michael Savage on the radio. He was declaring angrily that "the black...
Paul Otellini on Industrial Policy
Posted by Unknown | 12:43 AM
Intel CEO Paul Otellini : Other countries have focused on investing in innovation, creating national policies to build digital infrastructur...
Martin Wolf on China's exchange rate policy
Posted by Unknown | 6:23 PM
Martin Wolf : [China's] policy of keeping the exchange rate down is equivalent to an export subsidy and tariff, at a uniform rate – in o...
Epic Beard Man, race, violence, and American culture
Posted by Unknown | 8:16 AM
" Epic Beard Man ," the video that shows an old white guy delivering a beatdown to a black guy on an Oakland city bus, has quickly...
The continuing story of the 800-pound gorilla
Posted by Unknown | 7:39 AM
Apparently some among the Chinese leadership thought that once their country was the most powerful on Earth, all other countries would do wh...
Does government spending get flushed down a toilet?
Posted by Unknown | 8:37 PM
Greg Mankiw offers his thoughts on Obama's proposed bipartisan fiscal commission: [W]hat if you are [a] conservative [on the fiscal com...
U.S. government spending saves the world (again)
Posted by Unknown | 5:59 AM
From the government agency that brought you nuclear power, space travel, computers, and the internet: The brain trust of the Pentagon says...
I can has smrt kulcher?
Posted by Unknown | 11:16 AM
Ry forwards me the following chain email: Friends & Associates, Please meet Dr Starner Jones from Jackson , Mississippi...
The "sensible center" sours on China
Posted by Unknown | 6:54 AM
Robert Samuelson, as usual, gets some facts wrong in his most recent column about China (for instance, if the purpose of Chinese trade poli...
Texas vs. the future
Posted by Unknown | 7:48 AM
Bob Herbert has a decent column about how China is beating the U.S. in the race for solar energy . An excerpt: Way back in 1979, in the mids...


